Federal authorities place Guanajuato in green in COVID traffic light

Published April 24, 2021 (sp)

While state health authorities indicated that the State Reactivation Traffic Light will remain yellow, the federal government moved Guanajuato to the green traffic light in terms of COVID infections.

During the same press conference to update the COVID-19 pandemic in Guanajuato, it was confirmed that the State Traffic Light for Economic Reactivation will remain yellow with an alert, as it has been for the last six weeks.

Restrictions on businesses, social and business events, as well as churches will remain in place for at least one more week.

However, almost an hour and a half later, federal authorities at the evening conference on the pandemic, showed their updates of the Epidemic Risk Semaphore in the country and showed Guanajuato in green.

They contradict with state traffic light
A little more than an hour before the federal report, state authorities had mentioned that there is still a risk of a third reoccurrence of cases of COVID in the state, so the State Semaphore of Economic Reactivation remains at yellow with alert.

This was warned by Moisés Andrade Quesada, general coordinator of health services of the Guanajuato Ministry of Health at the weekly press conference on the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the presentation of statistics on the disease, it was detailed that Guanajuato has already moved away from the first places in number of active cases, as it is in 13th place nationally with 848 cases on average in the last week.

They detailed that there are 2,428 confirmed cases up to April 23, while in the same number of days but in March there were 6,342, which means that this month there are 61.7% less infections.

Regarding deaths, 91 were reported two weeks ago, 102 the previous week and 91 the last week.

Call to avoid meetings
But Andrade Quezada again warned: “it is important that we view these figures and graphs with great caution”.

In the same presentation it was detailed that of the outbreaks of contagions that have been reported in Mexico during 2021, most of them were generated by meetings between family members.

Therefore, they warned that dates such as April 30 and May 10 should be experienced again in a different way so as not to repeat the increase in the number of cases that occurred a year ago.

The important thing is to celebrate them, but above all to take care of them”, he mentioned.